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Celebrating Our Women-Owned Producers

Meet the Women-Owned Producers of Rogers Collection As a majority women-managed and operated company, we at Rogers Collection are proud to import many premium products from hard-working, knowledgeable, committed women producers. Today we are featuring three of these women-owned producers: Chloe Dimitriadis of Biolea (olive oil); Alice Cerutti of Cascina Oschiena (rice and grains); and…

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Making Liquid Gold in Crete Sustainably at Biolea

“He loves being outside in the olive groves and particularly has a talent for picking snails!” Chloe Dimitriadis says of her 2-year-old son, Orpheas. Chloe marks the sixth generation of the Dimitriadis family to run Biolea (Bee-oh-lay-a), a family-owned company that estate- produces and bottles stone-milled, cold-pressed, organic olive oil on the island of Crete…

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Our Collection of Olive Oils

“Working there [in the olive grove] is a ‘lesson in humility….’ How many generations have walked among those trees? And how many will walk there after me?’” —The Art of Eating, a quote by Jean-Benoit Hugues, producer of CastelineS extra virgin olive oil in Provence, France. For many of us around the world, summer is…

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So healthy the benefits have been certified!

Biolea Greek olive oil earns EU Certification for high levels of polyphenols—meaning great taste and great for you! One of our earlier blogs titled “Greek Superfoods” highlighted—you guessed it—Greek foods that are indeed super, on many counts. One item on the list was the Greek olive oil Biolea (pronounced Bee-oh-lay-ah) for its excellence in artisanal…

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Greek Superfoods from Trikalinos and Biolea

A look at Mediterranean foods that are cancer preventative, antioxidant rich and loaded-to-the-gills with vitamins and minerals We’ve all heard about good fats versus bad, whole foods versus processed, artisanal versus mass-produced. And long dispelled—thank goodness!—is the myth that a low-fat diet is the way to stay healthy. But in order to get healthy fats…